Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWho is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesMoreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
Luke
GospelsAnd he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
Acts
History / LukeAnd take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
Genesis
LawAnd hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra
History / EzraThe beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryLo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
Genesis
LawWhen thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesSing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?
Luke
GospelsAnd their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers
LawBecause they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsIn your patience possess ye your souls.
Luke
GospelsWho will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
Psalms
PoetryAs long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.